Eyeshield 21 279

Hello everyone, oni tired Xophien here as usual~ One thing for sure, a tendinitis sucks (couldn't sleep at all last night), but I still managed to translate this chapter no matter what. That goes to show how crazy/dedicated/crazy I am (pick two >.>).

Anyway, I just feel like dedicating this chapter to Crayola. The guy has committed himself to the scanlation of various sports mangas, and really does a great work on ES21 lately, so be sure to send him a lot of thanks :amuse

I might have cried a bit while reading this chapter, but it's probably because I'm tired. Or hay fever. Both actually. Yeah, definitely, even. Anyway, enjoy~

Eyeshield 21 chapter 279

Page 01

279th Down : The world’s number one glove

Left : His face is injured a lot, but his heart is injured even deeper...

Mamori : Sena...!
Mamori : That face, what happened...!?

Page 02

Sena : Eh!?
Sena : Err, that’s...
Sena : Ce-Ce-Cerberos did that!
Sena : Here, look, it’s bites!

Cerberos : Haa!?

Sena (sfx) : Shhh~
Cerberos’s sign : Another one!

Page 03

Ikkyuu : Are you even trying!?
Sena : Monta...
Sena : he came for training
Sena : Each time...

Monta : Remove me from the members’ list
Monta : For the Christmas Bowl

Sena : I know it’s useless by myself
Sena : But I still have to do something somehow
Sena : he’s been desperately struggling by himself
Sena : Because Honjou-san and his son are the opponents...

Sena : Despite that... It’s my fault.
Sena : Monta’s treasure
Sena : Honjou-san’s glove is...

Page 04

Monta : In this world
Monta : There’s nothing more important than that glove for me!!

Sakuraba : Takami-san
Sakuraba : Could you stay a little longer?
Sakuraba : Would you mind helping me for a personal training?

Sakuraba : Well...
Sakuraba : I know already... But
Sakuraba : Since I lost to Monta this year already
Sakuraba : Right now there’s no need to be in a hurry, but...

Takami : ... It’s alright
Takami : Until you get your feelings right

Page 05

Monta : Why...
Monta : I...

Sena : ... Excuse me
Sena : Sakuraba-san

Page 06

Sena : Well...
Sena : There’s something
Sena : I’d like to ask you...

Teikoku : Oooooh!

Taka : Yamato
Taka : If you’re not the opponent
Taka : This won’t really be a practice.

Page 07

Yamato : Yeah.
Yamato : Same here.

Hera : Overwhelming, huh...
Hera : Teikoku Gakuen gathers aces from all over the country
Hera : And the all-stars among those are in the first string

Hera : And
Hera : Even among the successive generations of first string players
Hera : They’re off the charts...!!

Yamato : ... Haha!
Yamato : Either way, Taka, you’re a mystery, right?

Yamato : You’re complaining you don’t have any opponent that can match you
Yamato : But still, everyday
Yamato : You never neglect your training

Taka : This is simply
Taka : a habit.

Page 08

Taka : It’s because
Taka : My father kept training me without a single day of rest ever since I was a child

Taka : I don’t have
Taka : anything I’m really aiming at
Taka : it’s not a thing I do for gaining self-confidence either.

Sign : Kisaragi

Kanji on the wall : Strength
Kisaragi : Deimon’s... Sena-kun
Kisaragi : What happened...??
(Xophien’s note : I’m glad I’m not Kisaragi and the figures I have in my room aren’t like that one... -_-;)

Sena : Kisaragi-kun...
Sena : well
Sena : There’s something I’d... like to ask you...

Page 09

Monta : ... For
Monta : something like this, huh?

Monta : For the sake of this glove
Monta : I punched my best friend, Sena

Monta : Even though I couldn’t help crying
Monta : while fixing it with tape

Monta : Something like this
Monta : is what
Monta : I was aiming for these past ten years...??

Page 10

Taka : Yamato
Taka : What are you aiming for?

Taka : Since Yamato knows it’s useless being humble
Taka : You can say it already
Taka : You know it, right?

Taka : The two of us are the strongest for our respective positions
Taka : An opponent that can fight us doesn’t exist anywhere...
Yamato : Really?
Yamato : I’m always looking forward to it

Yamato : That some day a player will come and
Yamato : force me to use my real play style.

Taka : Aah... I see, Yamato
Taka : So that’s it
Taka : That
Taka : it’s because you never got to show it.
Karin : “That”?

Taka : It’s different from me
Taka : I didn’t have any opponents in baseball so I came to Teikoku, but
Taka : It was the same for American football...

Page 11

Watt : Hello, Watt speaking
Watt : I gave the thing you asked me for to a tourist that was going back to Japan
Watt : Yeah, yeah, like you taught us before
Watt : I asked by kneeling down!!

Page 12

Monta’s mom : What’s wrong with you?
Monta’s mom : Such in a hurry in the morning...
Small text : You didn’t even eat your banana...
Monta : ... I’m sorry
Monta : Mom.

Monta : Because...
Monta : Right now
Monta : I just can’t run
Monta : into him...

Monta : Sena...?

Sena : ... Monta
Sena : Err...

Page 13

Sena : I’m sorry!
Sena : Such a thing happened to Honjou-san’s glove...
Sena : I’ve come to bring
Sena : replacement gloves...!!

Monta : ... It’s alright already,
Monta : Sena
Monta : I’m sorry for hitting you

Monta : I’m grateful for the feelings, but
Monta : There’s no way it could take its place
Monta : No matter what kind of gloves...

Page 14-15 (spread)

Right glove : Go grasp the nationals!!
Middle glove : Oni sure victory!!

Sena : All the receivers
Sena : Monta faced this far in catching battles
Sena : Have entrusted them to me.
Sena : The gloves they were using at that time.

Right glove : Catch
Left glove : (pretty much impossible to read)

Sena : Most of them
Sena : are in bad shape already, but...

Monta : This is
Monta : Sakuraba-senpai’s...

Glove : I will defeat the Devil Backfire myself! Don’t be defeated by some guys from Kansai!

Page 16

Monta : This one is
Monta : Ikkyuu-senpai’s...!

Ikkyuu : If you don’t do at the Christmas Bowl
Ikkyuu : the same kind of oni explosion like when you faced me, then
Ikkyuu : I’ll smash them!
Ikkyuu : your balls!!

Monta : Kisaragi
Monta : Kamaguruma
Monta : Even Watt, all the way from
Monta : America...

Monta : Tetsuma
Monta : -senpai...!

Monta : ... thanks
Monta : Sena.
Monta : Can you come
Monta : With me?

Page 17

Monta : I finally understand now
Monta : What I’ve been trapped into for ten years
Monta : That I
Monta : didn’t do a single thing

Monta : I’ve always
Monta : Wanted to become the second Honjou...

Monta : But I... I’m not Taka
Monta : After all
Monta : I can’t become someone else.

Monta : I won’t be
Monta : the second generation of anyone!

Monta : Raimon Tarou will become
Monta : The world’s strongest receiver!

Monta : Thanks for everything until now, Honjou-san!
Monta : I can’t help but
Monta : Surpass the god of catching at some point!!

Page 18-19 (spread)

Monta : I will
Monta : At the Christmas Bowl
Monta : defeat
Monta : Honjou-san...!!!
Text : Throwing away his obsession towards his spiritual master, he “moved on”, for the sake of the upcoming battle!!